In Windows 7 (32 bit) I could not manage to change the download folder to the one I use for all my downloads (actually it is f:\Downloads).

Whatever I write into the settings dialog, the downloaded files always land in c:\Users\...\Downloads\. Only if I select "Ask me etc." my prefered directory is recognised by K-Meleon, in so far as f:\Downloads is pre-selected in the file requester.

I can live with that but it would be far more convenient to dowload directly to my download folder.

I should not forget to say that K-Meleon is NOT installed in a protected directory such as c:\Program Files\. So user rights should not be the problem.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/01/2015 08:49AM by WiM.

Happened to me too with some downloads since v.75.
To circumvent the issue right click the download link and choose "Save Link Target As".

Confirmed.

I'll report in the 75 release thread just in case Dorian adds it in the almost sure 75.1.


Have in mind too, that setting to ask, instead save directly, doesn't behave this way.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/01/2015 02:15PM by JohnHell.

Probably just another pref-jungle-thing... [insert machete-smiley]

Did some googling and kept reading about a "folderlist" pref.

The last 2 entries here sound interesting:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Download_Manager_preferences
sounds similar too:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/980785
and here are TONS of "download" prefs!
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries

I probably don't tell you something new, siria, but you are a genius!

The culprit is "browser.download.folderList" (integer). If this setting does not exist or equals 1 then the user defined download dir is ignored when simply saving a file (not with "save as..."). Everything goes to the system download folder in this case.

Now I have inserted "browser.download.folderList = 2" in my config file and everything is working well.

Thanks again!

Thank you WiM! Great it works for you now, and glad it's so easy to fix

Important tip, if you or anyone wants such a missing pref in all future new profiles too, or perhaps just for looking it up again later, collect them in a new js-file in the folder for default prefs:
KM7X: K-Meleon/browser/defaults/preferences
KM1.X: K-Meleon/defaults/pref

For example have now added this in mine:
// KM75: the users default download dir ("browser.download.dir") only works when setting "folderList" to 2!
// (0=desktop, 1=system download folder in c/users/user/download)
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Download_Manager_preferences
pref("browser.download.folderList", 2);

PS that's also a great trick to collect a personal list of search engines and useragents, getting them automatically in all new profiles as "default" setting :cool: Makes it also very easy to copy them over into new KM versions.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2015 10:28AM by siria.

I suppose it's a problem with kmprefs.
about:preferences should work properly

Download directory bug in Prefs fixed here.

Thanks to siria and WiM.


Greetings.

K-Meleon in Spanish



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/04/2015 04:40PM by desga2.